In a recent Tridion delivery, Amaze was engaged to integrate managed content with a Geographical Information System (GIS) implementation. The GIS system was hosted within a completely separate business and technical domain managed by the client and it was essential that the GIS team were to be allowed to use their tools with a minimum of integration effort with the CMS.
The specification of the system called for the mapping element to surface content via a search interface with free text, radius and point of interest type options. The search results then calls a further page with a rendered map with search results plotted on the map. Each plotted point is a record in the Tridion CMS and a synopsis of the records displayed on the page. Further functionality allowed the map to be moved (in a similar fashion to Google Maps) and further points outside of the original search
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